blackstone code

Chapter 895 It's All About Work
While the representatives of the Ministry of Defense and the military were waiting for Lynch to get up, Senator Langdon was already in the Capitol.

He was expecting a senator, a prominent member of the military appropriations committee, a senator from Congress.

Lynch's "list" has been stuck here. Even if Mr. President uses his own privilege to approve a sum of money to Lynch, Congress is still stuck.

It is the prerogative of the president to use his privileges. If the president could use his privileges to compromise various congressional committees, there would be no need for these committees to exist long ago.

Moreover, the money approved by Mr. President will be reviewed by a separate committee in the end to review the content.

Only approved privileged appropriations are suitable.

If they don't think it's appropriate, the size of the president's fiscal prerogatives will be scaled back in the coming year.

Many times, some countries think that this set of federal rules...is hard to describe.

Being the president here must be as uncomfortable as eating shit, because even if you become the president, there are still many people and things that can restrain the president.

The Congress is the most typical example. There are also the party committees and party leaders of the ruling party. These people can affect the power of the president. This is why many people think it is meaningless to be the president of the federal government.

But they don't know that the purpose of being the president of the Federation may not be for power, but for money.

Just like Senator Langdon at this time, as a member of the House of Representatives, he is doing things that have nothing to do with his job.

"……senator!"

In just a short while, he saw one of the core members of the Military Appropriations Committee and immediately went up to him.

The senator didn't even seem to have time to stop and shake his hand, and he certainly wasn't going to act that naked.

"Sorry, I can't free up my hands right now." He held a briefcase in his left hand and a cup of coffee in his right hand. Indeed, he had no hands to shake hands with Senator Langdon, and there were good reasons for that.

"It's okay... Senator, I want to talk to you." Senator Langdon followed closely beside the senator. The latter did not stop, but continued to stride towards the elevator.

Senators and Representatives...you can't say there's a gap or a class difference between them, it's just that senators have more power relative to each other.

Authority classifies people and assigns them different labels. Compared with members of the House of Representatives, Senators are just a little more remarkable——

In at least the [-]-year history of the Federation, there has not been a president who has been a member of the House of Representatives. This is enough to prove who is on top and who is below.

The people in the elevator saw a senator coming towards them, they took the initiative to open the closing elevator door, greeted the senator with a smile and waited for him to come in.

There are many people crowded in the small space in the elevator, it is not suitable for chatting here, especially talking about those special topics.

After waiting for the elevator to switch several times, Senator Langdon followed the Senator and left the elevator.

This is the high level of the Capitol, where all senators have their own offices.

"Mr. Senator, those things I mentioned to you last time..."

"You mean the appropriation for that plane?" The senator asked casually as he walked.

Senator Langdon said yes.

The senator smiled, and handed the coffee and briefcase in his hand to Senator Langdon in front of a door, then took out the key and opened the door.

It was once thought that there are so many members of parliament in the Capitol, if each member is equipped with three to five secretaries, then at least hundreds or even thousands of secretaries will serve these people.

This is a shameless waste of taxpayers' money, a humiliation to taxpayers and the country!
So under the boiling public opinion, the Capitol adopted a public secretarial system, each floor has a secretarial office, and each office has ten secretaries, who are responsible for the daily work of all members of the entire floor.

This is obviously a nonsense thing. Members of Parliament have to deal with a lot of confidential documents every day, and they involve different fields. It is impossible for them to hand over these tasks to those public secretaries, so they simply don't need secretaries.

The secretary's office is there, and there are always ten people. Their job is to clean up every day, and help everyone to pick up takeaway when necessary-there is no coffee room in the Capitol.

If they don't want bad coffee, they have to order takeaway.

This is also the reason why many congressmen are unwilling to work here, it is too inconvenient.

The door was opened, and Mr. Senator and Mr. Langdon walked in one after the other. Mr. Senator opened the curtains and windows while saying, "Our evaluation of the plane is not as high as you think."

"You know, every year, many people sell some worthless things to the Ministry of Defense. After all, the Ministry of Defense is not an institution specializing in scientific research, and their understanding of some cutting-edge technologies is basically zero."

"It also makes them feel that many projects are valuable and meaningful, but they are not."

"Our job..." He packed up his things and stood in front of his chair, "...is to avoid wasting taxpayers' money on unnecessary budget expenditures, do you understand what I mean? ?”

He reached out, took the coffee cup and briefcase from Senator Langdon, and sat down.

Senator Langdon wanted to say something, but was stopped.

"I know you and Lynch are from the same place, and I'm willing to give you some convenience within a reasonable range. After all, we are all colleagues, but you can't take this kind of obvious..."

He shook his head, casually dropped the two documents he took out from his briefcase on the table, and made a "snap" sound.

"……Do you know what I mean?"

The two looked at each other for a moment, and Senator Langdon finally had to nod, "I think I understand."

Mr. Senator smiled immediately, "Look, it's not difficult, do you have anything else to do?"

"If not, remember to close the door for me when you leave."

Senator Langdon nodded again, turned and left.

Looking at the closed door, Mr. Senator shook his head.

Of course he knows that the plane is valuable, otherwise Mr. President would not be able to give special approval, but this does not mean that he also agrees with Mr. President's idea and votes for it.

Of course, it's not that he doesn't want to get some money from Senator Langdon and Lynch, it's just that the supporters behind him hope to continue to stop Lynch in this matter.

Even if you still have to pass it in the end, if you can delay it for a while, you can delay it for a while.

The advent of Lynch's aircraft immediately made the domestic military industry group realize that the pattern of military equipment in the future will change. After the aircraft solves its biggest disadvantage, the rest are advantages.

Before others noticed this, Lynch had already solved the problem and showed that he had taken out the test machine. If the budget given to him was passed, it seemed that it would not be so late for others to catch up.

In fact, it's too late for them now, and doing so is just doing their best.

As for offending Lynch?
This is not a problem at all. Business competition has always existed. Anyone who wants to make money through business has to face competition.

For Lynch, the obstruction of these people is part of the commercial competition. At the same time, for these people, Lynch suddenly entered the military industry, isn't it also a kind of competition for them?

The senator has been enjoying the dividends of these people for a long time. It is impossible for him to fall to Lynch all of a sudden because of a budget of tens of millions. Lynch's charm is not that great.

He shook his head and started to prepare for work. At this moment, the phone on the corner of the table rang.

The red button is lit, either for the Presidential Palace or for the Ministry of Defense.

He thought for a while, and only picked up the receiver when the phone rang for the sixth time.

Here is a little trick, if the call is not so urgent, usually the other party will start to think about whether to hang up after three rings.

If it keeps ringing, it means the call is very important and cannot be avoided.

Senators are generally unwilling to get too close to the presidential palace or the Ministry of National Defense. Getting too close is not good, and it is easy to cause trouble for themselves.

"Sorry, I spilled my coffee, it soaked my pants, and I was changing when the phone rang." The senator immediately found an excuse for taking so long to answer the phone.

The person on the other end of the phone obviously didn't consider whether the reason for pursuing it in the past was true, "I sent someone to send you a video, and you can watch it later, and the Ministry of Defense plans to increase Lynch's aircraft order this morning. "

"From the original [-] to [-], the total budget exceeds [-] million, and there may be more in the future."

Like the Military Appropriations Committee and the Military Budget Review Committee, most of the members of these committees related to the military have a few good friends in the Ministry of Defense.

Only in this way can we quickly learn some information about the Ministry of National Defense, understand what will happen next, and prepare a response.

The senator raised his eyebrows immediately, "What happened?"

"Yesterday Lynch's Blackstone Security gave people a glimpse of the future of aircraft through a small-scale armed operation. The Ministry of Defense and the military are considering whether to establish a third service independently."

"Don't reach out for this matter, understand?"

"We are not the ones reaching out to offend now. You will directly offend the top military generals. Their tempers are not as good as ours."

The words were already very clear, and the senator stood up immediately, holding his forehead, and he couldn't sit still.

Walking back and forth a few steps, with a serious expression on his face, "I have to have at least one ruling whether it complies with..."

"You don't need to make a ruling. I just want to inform you that I don't want to cooperate with a strange friend. You know, I am very nostalgic."

"I have another meeting later, so I hung up."

Looking at the handset that had been hung up, regardless of whether the video tape had arrived, Mr. Senator immediately ran out of the door and ran towards the elevator.

He watched Senator Langdon standing in the elevator, the elevator door slowly closed, and couldn't help shouting, "Wait a minute!"

　Happy holiday
　
(End of this chapter)